Greenhouse Gas Emissions

We track and publicly report on our Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions and began assessing selected sources of Scope 3 emissions since 2019.

Scope 1 and 2 Emissions

We have reduced our Scope 2 location-based carbon emissions significantly since 2006 through various energy efficiency improvement measures. Despite limited land and roof space, approximately 10% of our current energy demand is supplied by onsite green energy. Since 2020, we have also invested in bundled renewable energy certificates for all our remaining Scope 2 emissions, bringing our Scope 2 market-based carbon emissions to zero.

We do not own a campus fleet due to the excellent public transport connectivity and pedestrain access of our city campus while the President uses an electric vehicle. We also utilise refrigerants with very low global warming potential in our cooling systems. As such our Scope 1 emissions are negligible, constituting less than 0.01% of our total Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

Scope 3 Emissions

We have conducted a baseline assessment of emissions from our freshwater consumption, solid waste, business air travel, purchased goods and services, and investments. We plan to expand this in future to include other sources of business travel emissions and those from student travel. These sources are estimated to constitute the bulk of our Scope 3 emissions. As there is still a lack of unified calculation methodologies, applicable emission factors and limited data availability, we intend to track emissions from these sources internally for the time being while we work on improving the comprehensiveness and reliability of our Scope 3 carbon emissions data.

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